On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 07:07:20AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 6/15/19 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > There are no known non-exhaustive plaintext attacks on AES:
> >
> > https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/1512/why-is-aes-resistant-to-known-plaintext-attacks
>
> Even that non-authoritative stackexchange thread has varying opinions.
> Surely you don't claim that limiting know plaintext as much as is
> practical is a bad idea in general.
AES is used to encrypt TLS/https, and web traffic is practically always
mostly-known plaintext. I don't know of any cases where only part of a
webpage is encrypted by TLS to avoid encrypting known plaintext.
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